The Shepherd's Hut

The Shepherd's Hut

Jaxie dreads going home. His mum?s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. But no one?s ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. In one terrible moment his life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. There?s just one person left in the world who understands him and what he still dares to hope for. But to reach her he?ll have to cross the vast saltlands on a trek that only a dreamer or a fugitive would attempt. The Shepherd?s Hutis a searing look at what it takes to keep love and hope alive in a parched and brutal world.

Promotion info

A rifle-shot of a novel - crisp, fast, shocking - The Shepherd's Hut is an urgent masterpiece about solitude, unlikely friendship, and the raw business of survival.

Reviews

“I will never be able to unhear the voice of young Jaxie Clackton, plangent and profane, who is destined to become one of the greatest characters in Australian literature.” --Geraldine Brooks

'A page-turning heartbreaker' Emma Donoghue, author of Room

'Wonderful. Brutal, agonizing, tender' Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a Rabbit

Author description

Tim Winton has published twenty-eight books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in Western Australia.

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General Fields

ISBN : 9780143786115

Publisher : penguin random house

Imprint : Hamish Hamilton

Publication date : March 2018

Dimensions : 222mm X 161mm X 36mm

Availability date : March 2018

Product Type : books

Special Fields

Pages : 288

Author : Tim Winton

Bind : Hardback

Edition : 1

"Please please, read to your children. Read in a lively way. Read with love not duty"